Linux apps and /mnt

Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com
Tue Feb 15 22:45:49 GMT 2005


In the last episode (Feb 15), RW said:
> I just mounted a device at /mnt/t and tried to access a file from linux 
> realplayer. It couldn't see anything under /mnt at all, it seems that it's 
> actually seeing /compat/linux/mnt.
> 
> Why does /compat/linux/mnt exist? Is there some serious problem of having 
> linux apps see /mnt (like they see the real /home, and any non-standard 
> top-level directories)? An what's the best way to handle this?

Most likely it's because one of the rpms making up linux_base creates
it.  Just rmdir it.

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com


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